This is Creative Nerds outlook upon the best Photoshop design tutorials which where created in 2010. A great source to high quality design tutorials for newbie’s or experts to skills and tips form fresh design tutorials which will enhance your Photoshop knowledge. It would great if you could share which is your favourite tutorial featured on the list.

As the traditional working week draws to an end here in Melbourne, we’ve got a nice little round up for you of what was hot at Envato over the past 7 days.

Jeffrey Way Reveals All!

We spoke with Jeffrey Way, editor of Nettuts+ and CodeCanyon Site Manager, about his work, personal life and some stuff in between. You can check out the interview (and see Jeffrey’s adorable dog) here.

Want to know how you could win more than $1,000 worth of prizes for having your tutorial accepted on the Tuts+ Marketplace? We’re looking for marketplace author submitted content showing us how you made your high quality Envato marketplace items. We’ve got some awesome prizes lined up for numerous winners and are looking for your tutorial submissions to the Tuts+ Marketplace. Are you ready to win some top-notch prizes?

Complete Guide to Photo Sharpening in Photoshop

As a photographer or retoucher, you learn that not all images are perfectly sharp in all the right places straight from the camera. You might make adjustments in Lightroom, Camera RAW, or in Photoshop but it often takes a little post work if your otherwise perfect shot wasn’t right on the mark.

Every week we’ll introduce you to an Envato staff member or team. This week we meet Jeffrey Way, who hates Vegemite and loves revenge. He also looks after CodeCanyon and Nettuts+.

What is it like working for Envato, and what are some of the jobs you’ve had with us?

The best part about working for Envato is that I don’t have to deal with typical corporate chess-play, if that makes any sense. One of my favorite movies, Office Space, jokes about this hierarchy a lot:

Tutsplus.com is the best place to go to get an overview of our tutorial sites. Have you visited yet?

If you want to be the best, you have to learn from the best. At Tuts+ we believe in getting the best to share their skills and techniques. Whether it’s industry professionals and experts or skilled amateurs who have a trick to blow you away, anyone who’s good enough can write for a Tuts+ site.

Hi Narendra, great to have you here at PSDFAN. Could you please tell us a little about yourself and how you first got into the design field?

Hi Tom, and thank you for asking! I’m a 26 year young graphic designer from Indore India. I started drawing since my childhood, but never thought that I would choose it as my profession and my pencil would turn into a mouse. In 2003 was just a content developer and later got interested in design and took a basic design course for that. This was the turning point of my career and I started designing for my clients. Initially I also had created some horrible designs, but later improved my design sense with time. Now I’m good at my work and due to this, I have many satisfied clients across India & Europe. Fortunately this list is not going to end here.

It’s that time again, we have another great podcast episode ready for your enjoyment. I’m also very excited to announce that Skellie (whom you probably know from Tuts+ or the Tuts+ Marketplace) is going to be joining us every episode as a co host. The podcast needed a womans touch and we’re super happy to have her with us!

35 Beautiful Photoshop Brush Packs for your Daily-Use

The brushes for Adobe Photoshop are probably one of the most used addons because they don’t just enhance your designs, they do also improve and give to your works a new, fresh look. That’s why we’ve compiled below 35 high-qulity, beautiful, fresh, grunge and modern photoshop brush packs so you could have another, big compilation, to choose from for further designs.

A great quick tip delivered in the format of a screen cast curtsey of Creative Nerds. This tutorial shows you how to create a unique hand drawn text effect using illustrator with a great simply outcome show you a great technique.

Create a Photo-Realistic Realistic Hourglass

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an elegant hourglass in Photoshop. While using simple techniques and paying a little attention to the lights, shadows and reflection you can achieve perfect result with photorealistic details.

Every so often, we like to take a look at what has been a hot topic or popular thread on the marketplace forums. Our forums are the virtual water cooler of the marketplaces which is home to over 500,000 members!

If you’re not already a member of the Envato marketplaces, why not join now? Each marketplace has it’s own thriving forums with plenty of users with similar interests. There’s also no better place to get the feedback of your peers when preparing a new item for the marketplaces other than the marketplace forums. The knowledge our users have continues to surprise me everyday.

28 Beautiful Button and Icon Sets to Improve Your Designs

An icon is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it. Most of the icons, stand as freebies, that’s why there isn’t any need to spend huge amounts of money for beautiful and modern icons. Today, we present a compilation of free, beautiful and clean set of icons. Some of them are free for using in commercial projects, some of them are not, that’s why you should carefully read the licenses offered by their respective authors.

Freelancers by nature usually work on their own, as such we often don’t really know what others are doing, charging and thinking. This survey aims to compile our collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere! The 2007 survey rendered great results with input from over 3,000 participants, but we need help to update it! By taking part in the Global Freelancer Survey you will be rewarded in three ways:

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

The Design Theory

I’ve always been a firm believer that it’s often the details that result in a truly great design. Surprisingly, this often applies more to very simple designs, with less content, as these designs are the most likely to appear boring or empty if you don’t pay attention to the details.

We’ve collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in October. Whether you’re interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there’s bound to be something you didn’t spot over the course of the month.

Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you’ve never seen before!